Lost Win8 Activationkey, HELP

YoloGaming

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Guys i need help.
Okey so:

- I bought a laptop with win7 on it.
- Later i upgraded and bought win8.
- Then i reformatted my pc back to win7.
- Now i want to upgrade to win8 again, but i have lost the activationkey :(((

HELP
 

USAFRet

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Bought Win 8 from where? Contact them. Or look in your old emails.
 

YoloGaming

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I bought win8 from microsift, it was an online download. But i have a DVD just not the activationkey :(

I dont remember which email i used. When log in to microsoft account with mine and my dad's i dont see any purchases :/

But i can just search in the email :)
 

Quixit

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Microsoft's online key system is rather annoying. They just deliver the key via email and there isn't any other method of looking it up. If you don't find a copy of that original email you can try calling them but they're absolutely awful to talk to.

In the future I recommend printing off the key and putting away together with the disc. This has saved me many times in the past.
 

USAFRet

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Yup. All my license keys are
1. Saved in an encrypted Excel file
and
2. Printed on paper, or printed directly on the CD/DVD (lightscribe)
 

YoloGaming

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I know i should have written down the key :/ FML
 

YoloGaming

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How do you encrypt files? :p
Im kind of a noob when it comes to that...
 

USAFRet

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Well, currently, its just ZIP file encryption. Not the greatest security. But just enough.
If anyone actually has access to this drive and that folder, I have much larger problems to worry about other than losing the license key to Adobe Lightroom...:)